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The good news: Nobody got to use the grenade
Posted on February 26, 2009From Sara Shepherd:Police used a robot to retrieve a hand grenade from a man?s basement today after a neighbor-vs.-neighbor dispute in Kansas City?s Northeast neighborhood. Officers were first called to the house, near 11th Street and Belmont Avenue, about 9:30...
Save a life, get ticketed for jaywalking
Posted on February 26, 2009Story is from Colorado ... The guy was able to push three people out of the way of a truck, but was hit and got badly injured. Authorities say that, since he was jaywalking at the time, he also needed...
Final Exit Network
Posted on February 26, 2009In Georgia, authorities have arrested four people who allegedly helped a man commit suicide last summer. Police say their suspects are part of something called the Final Exit Network, a right-to-die nonprofit. There's a lot of artful phrasing on their...
A monstrous allegation
Posted on February 26, 2009In Minnesota, authorities are investigating a man who allegedly urged a Canadian college student to kill herself, the Star Tribune reports. The man apparently came up with a fake ID and continued the relationship for some time. Snip:Chevalier (the woman's...
Domestic abusers and guns
Posted on February 26, 2009Interesting case from the Supreme Court. Federal law bars people convicted of domestic violence from owning guns, but most states don't have laws that literally say "domestic violence." Instead, the bad guys are charged with battery or some other crime...
Wrongly convicted man's life is perfect!
Posted on February 26, 2009Uh, actually ... CNN interviews Tim Masters, a Colorado man who was wrongly convicted in 1999 and freed just last year. (Never mind that he's actually been a suspect since 1987, when the murder occurred.) Masters says he's struggling to...
AL funeral director accused of leaving rotting corpse in car
Posted on February 26, 2009The body was put in the vehicle a few days ago, but the person had died back sometime in 2007, police say. (The family never paid for services, and never signed paperwork to have the woman's body cremated.) The funeral...
Someone parked in my spot. Better get my shotgun.
Posted on February 26, 2009Story is from Arizona. I don't recommend doing this, but I'm not the cheeriest soul when someone parks in MY spot either. Hat Tip: Many thanks, eephus!
NY boy, 15, killed over graffiti
Posted on February 26, 2009Police say the shooter was angry because HIS graffiti had been painted over.
Open Thread ... Thursday (Friday Eve)
Posted on February 26, 2009Welcome back to the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. If you've seen an interesting story somewhere else, feel free to post a link below. As always, please follow our standard rules: Please sign your comments,...
Do you recognize these people?
Posted on February 26, 2009From KCPD: The male (wearing all black) and female in the attached pics were caught on surveillance video (Price Chopper, 8700 E. 63rd) purchasing items with a stolen credit card. If you can identify these individuals please call the TIPS...
Larry D. Williams
Posted on February 26, 2009Williams is facing charges of armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon, the Jackson County prosecutor's office reports. Specifically, he's accused of firing a handgun yesterday at a neighbor, who was driving away, in the 6000 block of...
Dr. Dean
Posted on February 26, 2009Lovely little story from Kentucky, where police have busted a guy who allegedly pretended to be a doctor. He actually PAID people $50 to let him give them medical examinations, police say. (From the Herald-Examiner: Gutierrez declined to elaborate on...
$8 and 21 years later ...
Posted on February 26, 2009From Joe Lambe:About 21 years ago, an Overland Park police officer gave $8 to a motorcyclist who had run out of gas. That seemed to be the end of it ? until this month. Motorcyclist Alfred Edmond of Arizona wrote...
Southern Poverty Law Center: 926 Hate Groups active in the U.S.
Posted on February 26, 2009That's 30 in Missouri and eight in Kansas, according to the center, which just released its annual hate-group study. In the KC metro area, that includes two black separatist groups in KCMO, a white nationalist outfit in Lee's Summit. Kansas,...
Goodbye, Rocky
Posted on February 26, 2009This is fairly off-topic, but I wanted to mark the passing of The Rocky Mountain News, the Denver-based newspaper that is publishing its final edition tomorrow. The paper's owner, Scripps, tried but failed to find a buyer, so the Rocky...
Would legalizing pot save the U.S. money?
Posted on February 26, 2009Andrew Cohen, a legal expert for CBS News, has a piece about the economic costs of busting people for smoking marijuana or underage drinking. In Colorado, Boulder's police chief, for example, wants to lower the drinking age because he'd rather...
They keep finding bodies in the desert ...
Posted on February 26, 2009Just a little followup about the news from Albuquerque, where authorities have now found 11 sets of remains buried in the desert -- the work of an apparent serial killer. (Or what was once desert -- apparently, they were partly...
Fact: The system isn't built for 11-year-old murder suspects
Posted on February 26, 2009Interesting story from the Pittsburgh paper about the fifth-grader accused of killing his dad's pregnant girlfriend. Under Pennsylvania law, he MUST be charged as an adult, though his lawyer is trying to get the charge moved to juvie court. In...
Michael Vick could be leaving Leavenworth soon
Posted on February 26, 2009And he might not even have to go to a halfway house, The AP reports.
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on February 26, 2009Young woman tries to kill her head lice by dousing her hair with gasoline. Things go downhill from there. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Keith G in PV!
Nurses fired after taking pix of sex toy lodged in patient's rectum
Posted on February 26, 2009Story is from Wisconsin -- apparently, the photos appeared on the Internet. Police investigated, but found no state laws were violated. (Wisconsin is surprisingly cool about stuff like this.) The FBI is going to take a crack at it, though,...
Man accused of having sex with car-wash vacuum
Posted on February 26, 2009Story is from Michigan, and he's decided to plead no-contest. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!
IL police want to fight crime with brass whistles
Posted on February 26, 2009Oak Park police want to hand out brass police whistles to the public, so they can whistle if they see anything nefarious happening. The theory is that bad guys -- who are reportedly a cowardly, superstitious lot -- will run...
A little more about the Jacob Fischer story ...
Posted on February 26, 2009KCPD Chief Corwin's blog has a little more detail about the KCPD officers who helped find a Raytown teen about 32 hours after he wrecked, narrowly saving his life. (Fischer thanked the officers during an award ceremony earlier this week.)
Report: Obama will try to revive assault-weapon ban
Posted on February 26, 2009The same one that died back in 2004, which banned the sale of assault weapons, Attorney General Eric Holder says. Partly, they're doing it to help Mexico, which wants fewer U.S. guns to end up in the hands of drug...
What's worse than a kiddie-porn collector?
Posted on February 26, 2009How about a RADIOACTIVE kiddie-porn collector? Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2!
Hunter says he mistook hibernating bear for a deer
Posted on February 26, 2009Talk about your fantastical defenses. Though I guess it's worth a shot since he could get two years and a $30K fine if he's found guilty of killing a bear. Story is from Wisconsin.
Say, how's DMX doing these days?
Posted on February 26, 2009Ooh, not so good. DMX -- who's serving 90 days in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County jail -- is now facing new charges. The rapper, who's been on a bread-and-water diet for misbehaving, allegedly threw a food tray at a...
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Do parents have the right to NOT turn in a sexual offender?
No. The offender should be turned in regardless of any disability (1), or reason...
Can someone detained in a search w/ warrant, be charged with a crime related to the search if they were not arrested at the time of the search?
The police have fairly wide discretion on when they can make an arrest so long a...
I was a bookkeeper for a recreation center. The Center Director left and a new director took over. I went to work one day and some of my files were missing. I called our computer tech and her restored the files (I had ma
In order for a crime to be established you need to conclusively prove that the D...
If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
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It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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